Be remembered for the right things.
I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.
Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
They will take advantage of the end of the rainy season now to really go after them.
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.
There was clearly an intent to collude.
May the best man and woman win, I'll give it my best shot.
As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
There have been hills and valleys over the last five years, really more hills than valleys. But we see blue sky ahead.
I'm a solo skater; the sport can be lonely.
Do not rear a bird of a bad breed.
He gives twice who gives in a trice.
Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither; ripeness is all.
I try to make music for people to relate to, and I like to keep it realistic.
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell.
Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.
My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.
A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Prayer is the pillow of religion.
I like the opportunity to make films.
Thank God for a powerful mom and amazing mentor who saw more in me than I could see in myself.
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.
He has enough who is content.
